Note: As pointed out in the comments, it was Hoover who crushed the veterans. I have to embrace my Biden moment. You would think I'd remember Hoovervilles.... TBL
Showing posts with label veterans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label veterans. Show all posts
Fuck You Very Much, Mistah Commander in Chief. Sir. (12)
Even as they add 1,000,000 senior citizens to prescription drug programs in an underfunded Medicare system they describe as inefficient and corrupt, even as they shuffle veterans in private substandard 'convalescent homes' to sell off VA land to private developers, Obama Adminstration denies Veterans COLA increases. Congress and career Federal employees get theirs.
Veteran's Day
WESTMORELAND. O that we now had here
But one ten thousand of those men in England
That do no work to-day!
KING. What's he that wishes so?
My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin;
If we are mark'd to die, we are enow
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
It yearns me not if men my garments wear;
Such outward things dwell not in my desires.
But if it be a sin to covet honour,
I am the most offending soul alive.
No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England.
God's peace! I would not lose so great an honour
As one man more methinks would share from me
For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!
Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse;
We would not die in that man's company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
This day is call'd the feast of Crispian.
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian.'
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
And say 'These wounds I had on Crispian's day.'
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember, with advantages,
What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words-
Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester-
Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb'red.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
American Soldier
via Ace of Spades.
Not one of Shakespeare's "all unspotted soldiers", not one of Hollywood's robot killers. The guy next to you in the ranks, warts and all. Worth a read.
Fuck You Very Much, Mistah Commander in Chief. Sir. (11)
"...the House bill as it stands today still would not, repeat, would not exempt veterans who receive VA healthcare from the punitive 2.5 percent tax that the bill would impose for failure to have “acceptable coverage.
...The current House bill would also create a disincentive to hiring members of the National Guard and Reserve by levying an eight percent payroll tax penalty against employers that do not provide continuous health coverage to its employees. Continuous coverage for National Guard and Reserve members is not always necessary because they frequently transition to and from active duty where they have access to TRICARE."-- Steve Buyer, House Veterans Affairs Committee
We have troops in combat overseas and Barack Obama and the Democratic Party are promising to monitor them as potential terrorists, to tax their health care, and to cut their benefits to their dependents. Do they really think the troops don't notice this?
How do people this dumb breathe without assistance? How do people that dumb manage to vote for them?
VA Hides Death Bible!
The VA suicide booklet published with the guidance of the Hemlock Society to "assist" lonely and isolated veterans in making "end of life choices" has been withdrawn from part of the VA's website after its existence was publicized.
However, the pamphlet can still be found elsewhere on the VA site and is still being recommended for use by the VA.
Fuck You Very Much, Mistah Commander in Chief. Sir. (10)
Remember those "Death Panels" the Democratic Party and Barry said were a myth?
They've already started.
From the Wall Street Journal:
If President Obama wants to better understand why America's discomfort with end-of-life discussions threatens to derail his health-care reform, he might begin with his own Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). He will quickly discover how government bureaucrats are greasing the slippery slope that can start with cost containment but quickly become a systematic denial of care.
Last year, bureaucrats at the VA's National Center for Ethics in Health Care advocated a 52-page end-of-life planning document, "Your Life, Your Choices." It was first published in 1997 and later promoted as the VA's preferred living will throughout its vast network of hospitals and nursing homes. After the Bush White House took a look at how this document was treating complex health and moral issues, the VA suspended its use. Unfortunately, under President Obama, the VA has now resuscitated "Your Life, Your Choices."
Who is the primary author of this workbook? Dr. Robert Pearlman, chief of ethics evaluation for the center, a man who in 1996 advocated for physician-assisted suicide in Vacco v. Quill before the U.S. Supreme Court and is known for his support of health-care rationing.
"Your Life, Your Choices" presents end-of-life choices in a way aimed at steering users toward predetermined conclusions, much like a political "push poll." For example, a worksheet on page 21 lists various scenarios and asks users to then decide whether their own life would be "not worth living."
The circumstances listed include ones common among the elderly and disabled: living in a nursing home, being in a wheelchair and not being able to "shake the blues." There is a section which provocatively asks, "Have you ever heard anyone say, 'If I'm a vegetable, pull the plug'?" There also are guilt-inducing scenarios such as "I can no longer contribute to my family's well being," "I am a severe financial burden on my family" and that the vet's situation "causes severe emotional burden for my family."
When the government can steer vulnerable individuals to conclude for themselves that life is not worth living, who needs a death panel?
One can only imagine a soldier surviving the war in Iraq and returning without all of his limbs only to encounter a veteran's health-care system that seems intent on his surrender.
I was not surprised to learn that the VA panel of experts that sought to update "Your Life, Your Choices" between 2007-2008 did not include any representatives of faith groups or disability rights advocates. And as you might guess, only one organization was listed in the new version as a resource on advance directives: the Hemlock Society (now euphemistically known as "Compassion and Choices").
This hurry-up-and-die message is clear and unconscionable. Worse, a July 2009 VA directive instructs its primary care physicians to raise advance care planning with all VA patients and to refer them to "Your Life, Your Choices." Not just those of advanced age and debilitated condition—all patients. America's 24 million veterans deserve better.
Many years ago I created an advance care planning document called "Five Wishes" that is today the most widely used living will in America, with 13 million copies in national circulation. Unlike the VA's document, this one does not contain the standard bias to withdraw or withhold medical care. It meets the legal requirements of at least 43 states, and it runs exactly 12 pages.
After a decade of observing end-of-life discussions, I can attest to the great fear that many patients have, particularly those with few family members and financial resources. I lived and worked in an AIDS home in the mid-1980s and saw first-hand how the dying wanted more than health care—they wanted someone to care.
If President Obama is sincere in stating that he is not trying to cut costs by pressuring the disabled to forgo critical care, one good way to show that commitment is to walk two blocks from the Oval Office and pull the plug on "Your Life, Your Choices." He should make sure in the future that VA decisions are guided by values that treat the lives of our veterans as gifts, not burdens.
People, you have no idea how lonely and isolated a prolonged stay in a government medical facility is. I spent several months visiting Deborah Leigh when she was hospitalized in the VA with a renal infection. Many of the veterans there, especially the olders ones, can go weeks or months without a visit from family or friends, or receive no visits at all. Many of them are facing the prospect of spending the rest of their lives in VA care. For too many of them the only human contact they have is the VA staff... who are now handing them this pamphlet. This is beyond obscene.
Some good people...
While Frumley Brooks was wandering around Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre giving all us vulgar reactionaries a good look up his nostrils, he overlooked some folks you might want to check out...
Operation Homefront provides assistance to deployed troops, their families, and returning wounded.
1-858-695-6810
The Cal-Diego Paralyzed Veterans' Association assists veterans of both peacetime and combat service with permanent spinal chord damage. You can reach them or their national organization through the link.
1-858-450-1443
1-800-423-2778
Do something useful with your money before Barry gets it all.
Fuck You Very Much, Mistah Commander in Chief. Sir. (7)
Chosin, Korea 1950
Hue, Republic of Vietnam, 1968
Iraq, 2004
Mr. President, Why Does This Woman
Still Have a Job?
HOW TO SPOT A ONE-TERM PRESIDENT
Good American Stuff in Los Angeles... Who Knew?
"Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans" picnic at Amelia Earhardt Park, North Hollywood.
Los Angeles Daily News press interviews David Hernandez of the Los Angele County Republicans and picnic organizers.
Los Angeles Daily News press interviews David Hernandez of the Los Angele County Republicans and picnic organizers.
Fuck You Very Much, Mistah Commander-in-Chief. Sir (4)
Obama to demand veterans pay for war wounds out of private insurance
First he wants to crowd their families out of Tricare into private coverage they may or may not be able to get and may not be able to keep if they do, according to the CB0...
Now he wants the veterans themselves to be financially liable for their own wounds...
BARACK OBAMA WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?
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